No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.

My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.

If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.

The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.

I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it is up I belong to a risen race.

I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him agesof education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.